Fortune's Rising: Outer Bounds, Book 1

Under the supertech Coalition government, Fortune's colonists are enslaved to harvest the highly valuable brain-enhancing drug Yolk, often losing their sanity and lives in the process. The population is dying off, and the planet is becoming a police state whose only purpose is to harvest Yolk.

So Good! Not Perfect.

Not quite as good as Forging Zero but still a fantastic listen.

A fully realized world but the story is focused on only a few locations. Thi..Show More »s leaves plenty of time for character development and there are some great characters here. With motivations that range from noble to evil and everything in-between.

The one bad point is the character Tatiana Eyre. She's quite possibly one of the most annoying characters in any book I've ever read. Reminded me of all parts of Katniss (hunger games) I disliked.

Fortune's Folly: Outer Bounds, Book 2

Humanity, in its struggle to escape its own planet's demise, began sending colony ships from Earth almost 700 years ago in the desperate hope a handful would find someplace habitable for human life and be able to continue our species. Only one ship survived. It survived only because it found a vast swath of alien planets, all terraformed, all utterly abandoned. Alien megastructures cold and lifeless.